How find files with full stop in the name?

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burgundy
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How find files with full stop in the name?

Post by burgundy »

How can I use Everything to find all files with a full stop in their name?

For example there may be a file called this:
Mister X. and his wife.doc

I have tried using
file:"."
but it doesn't work.
void
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Re: How find files with full stop in the name?

Post by void »

Please try searching for:
file:*.*.*

This will find files with two dots in the filename. Including the dot for the extension.
burgundy
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Re: How find files with full stop in the name?

Post by burgundy »

I had thought file: referred only to the part before the separator and extension. It seems not.

Thank you.
void
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Re: How find files with full stop in the name?

Post by void »

I've put on my TODO list: add a namepart: modifier.
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Re: How find files with full stop in the name?

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Re: How find files with full stop in the name?

Post by NotNull »

FWIW:
The current $namepart() (used in Menu:Tools > Options > General > Context Menu) exists of basename + extension, like somefile.txt.
The curent namepartdupe: function searches for files/folders with the same basename. like somefil.txt and somefile.ini
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Re: How find files with full stop in the name?

Post by void »

The current $namepart() (used in Menu:Tools > Options > General > Context Menu) exists of basename + extension, like somefile.txt.
That's a bug, it should be the name part only, eg: somefile
I've fixed this for the next version of Everything.
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